Add-on developers: get your free Firefox 4 t-shirt!

Firefox 4 is just around the corner and it’s time to update your add-ons! Developers of Mozilla-approved add-ons compatible with the latest Firefox 4 beta or 4.0.* by January 7, 2011 are eligible to receive a free Firefox 4 t-shirt from Mozilla. If your add-on meets the criteria, just fill out this form before January 7.

It’s a bit strange.It depends who is reviewing you add-on.Yesterday and uploaded Purple Fox and it got reviewed later that night.Same goes for Bloody Red.Uploaded it 2 days ago and got reviewed last night.
Uploaded Blue and Orange Fox a week ago and I made it compatible with beta 8 but it’s still in sandbox.I even had time to fix few things and upload another version compatible with Firefox 4.0.* Theme’s still not reviewed though.Once I was waiting a month for the editors to review my add-on.

It’s kinda sad that my addon is regularly updated, working great and getting great reviews but that’s not enough because it’s not public. And why is it not public? Because there is already another addon that does the same thing except it’s not updated for some time now and contains even less features.

Is there an estimated date of delivery, or a status update on this? (I can understand that it must take a while (and lots of work), especially with all the people that have probably submitted, but I was just wondering how far you guys were getting.)

Yes, I was beginning to wonder as well. Any idea on how far along you are? (I’m not trying to be mean, and I don’t think Jake was either, but I would like an estimated date (something like “about 1 week” or “about 2 months” – just so I know when to not plan my vacations.)

It’s been almost a month and I still have not got my shirt.I think that mozilla lied to us.They could have give more info about when are we suppose to receive our shirts.At least all the effort I’ve put on updating my add-on won’t be wasted. 🙂

Thanks for the quick reply.Honestly I don’t know how many add-ons are compatible with Firefox 4.
One more thing.I saw a post on one site that Mozilla wants people who are good with editing images to make the new Firefox 4 t-shirt.Are we going to get something like this http://www.firefoxfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/2545_lg.jpg or it’s a shirt with the Firefox icon.I doesn’t really matter to me but I’m curious and I guess there’s nothing wrong with that. 🙂

I am also still waiting for a t-shirt. If I did not get it by now, does this mean my add-on wasn’t eligible? I made sure that the latest version (which had full FF4 support) was public on AMO before submitting, and I only live in Pennsylvania (United States), so I don’t think shipping should take too long.

Justin is a Product Manager helping experimental projects reach their potential in Mozilla Labs. He previously worked on the Firefox Marketplace for HTML5 apps and led the Firefox Add-ons team, helping millions of users customize Firefox to make it their own.